Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-05
DAILY HERALD.
THE CHAUTAUOUA.
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morning at 10 o'clock to enjoy the
musical recital b. Prof, King. 1t Is
not marvellous that d performance .,
this kind should attract such a crowd.
II doubtless proves two things: That
Mr.. Kings efforts are highly artistic
and that the people appreciate such
music.
THE SCHOOL OF CALIsTHENICs,
Under the superintendent of Miss
Broadwell, of Hanna College, Miss
McCreery, pianist, is rapidly gaining
in interest. The importance of physi-
cal culture cannot be over estimated.
That SO little attention is paid to it, is
A thing difficult to understand.
Miss Broadwell is model teacher.
Everything is like clockwork. All the
motions are suited to music, and the
labor of the exercises becomes a pleas
ant pastime.
The Assembly will doubtless, by the
next year, have a better hall.
DIR. WELLER
On Wednesday gave the third of his
series of four lectures on great musi-
clans. The subject presented was the
life and character of Haydn. The
lecture was perfect gem of literature
and was appreciated as such by those
who attended. We give the following
extracts from the lecture. "With
his whole heart he sung songs and
loved him that made him.-Eccls.
Xvii: 8.
As the name Haydn" differs from
the name Handel" so the tone of
our second character differs from that
Of the first one. The gentler nature
is already imaged in the gentler name.
Handel was grand; Haydn was
gentler. Handel entranced the intel
lect; Haydn charmed the heart.
The two lives were two musical
notes, the first a staccato, the second
a legato. The one is the scream of
the eagle, the other is the measured
tone of the sweet voiced nightingale.
Handel showed more thought; Hay
dn more heart. Handel created and
was crowned in the oratorio; Haydn
created and was crowned in the SYM
phony. Handels imagination was
stronger; Haydn's stronger.
"With his whole heart he sang
songs and loved him that made him. "
Havdn did sing songs with his whole
heart and more than Handel, he did
love him that made him. His relig-
ion was in all his art and his art in all
his religion. His was the old story
of struggle and of pluck that wins.
Nature had made him musician and
had written the label so plainly that
it could not be misread. His friends
designed him for the priesthood but
he never gave it moments
thought. He had positive mu-
steal predilection but nc
drawings toward the priestly office.
/ think the traditional routine of the
priesthood was too narrow path for
this great free soul to travel in. A
treadmill process will do for dull
nature but not for one that thinks and
scars.
HAYDN was at one time offered a
place i'm one of the chief musical
associations on condition that he pro-
duce annually for the society an
original composition. He declined,
ON the ground that it made merch-
andise of fine art.
More even than Handel, Haydn
was a tireless worker. During the
greater part of his life, he devoted
from fifteen to eighteen hours daily to
his art. Much of his life was spent
in court circles and among devotees
Of pleasure, and yet the destinations
of society availed not to lure him from
a pursuit which, as in Handel, was a
passion in his soul.
At twenty-eight, he went into the
employ of a prince, who soon passed
away and was succeeded by his son,
in whose employ the great composer
was continued. In less than thirty
years the second prince died, and
Haydn survived him something more
than seventeen years. 1t is not work
but dissipation that shortens life.
The great musician was gamer in at
least two ways by his mode of living.
% He really heightened his days
by it, and (2) by means of it finished
the work of his life. One says of him,
a. His life was a rounded whole. There
WAS no broken light about. 1t orbed
slowly with a mild, unclouded lustre,
into a perfect star"
Time was gentle with him,
and death was kind for both.
waiting upon his genius until all was
won. He came into port over a calm
sea and after prosperous voyage.
The laurel wreath was woven about
silver locks; the gathered-in harvest
was ripe and golden. He worked to a
high ideal. His music absorbed and
consumed him, but did not drive him
it led him. He was its master, not
its slave.
The work of Haydn is Christian
conception, and his character Chris
tian character. He was ever on the
lookout for the flower garden and rip
ping streams i'm the world of happi-
ness, and yet this same Haydn was
not only accustomed to pray daily to
God, but he believed that his prayers
were answered and that his work
came by inspiration from the Spirit of
God. Like Handel, his great compo-
sitions were penned when, after prayer
and divine communion, his whole
soul was lifted up into an overwhelm-
ing TRANSPORTATION.
He says: Il daily pray to God, for
without him | am a poor creature"
lie did not commit his conceptions to
record while as yet they were only
dreams, but they must have the ring
of reality before they could become
an actual force on singers lips or or
gan's keys.
He was intensely earnest and
prayerful, and yet his cup OF happi-
ness was daily filled to the brim. 1t
is mistake to suppose that an ear
nest, praying soul is Of necessity one
of perpetual grief and tears. Even
when the eye OF the musician had
grown dim and the almond tree had
come into bloom, he was wont to ex-
claim. "Life is a charming affair.""
He listened to the harpings of an
gels, and it was to be expected that
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